"All of the following players are proper applications, i.e. they use windows and don't hack the hardware (except for the sound hardware). All of the following players use external players to allow for an unlimited number of formats (provided that somebody writes a player). All of the following players support Pro/Noise/ SoundTracker, ScreamTracker, FastTracker. I believe that most of the players support MultiTracker and TakeTracker as well (DeliTracker certainly does)".

• Delitracker 2.27 - As with Eagleplayer, a majority of the program has been re-written to speed it up, as well as adding several new players (Deli-AY being one), and improved S3M support. There are also a host of new "Genies", such as the Christmas Snow-Scene, and The Dr-Who genie. Fast Tracker II XM support has been added in version 2.14. This player is my personal favorite (editor's note: Steven Innell speaking), having a better gui, and nicer "feel". It too is a shareware production, costing around $20 (or 20 DM) again to register for. All features are available in the demo version.

• EaglePlayer1.54c - This player now has been re-written in areas, making it faster, and better looking. It also added several new "eagleplayers" which has increased the number of mod/music formats which it will play. It currently supports a majority of PC mod formats (S3M, MTM, FastTracker V1) and many Amiga style mods (too numerous to mention). You can also use some of the players from Delitracker, although some do not work, or are already included with the distribution archive. This is a Shareware production, and most features are available (except saving of configs, and mods) in the demo version. The registration fee is around $20.

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• D.A.S.ModulePlayer 3.5b - Plays M.K., NST, 6CHN, 8CHN, MTM, S3M, Quadracomposer, MED, Future Composer, SoundMon 2.0, FRED, MusicAssembler and David Whittaker mods. New formats may be added via external player libraries. Requires MUI for its GUI. Requires AmigaOS 2.0+. Crippled shareware 25 AUD, 70 FIM, $15.

There are several DAS Player peripheral files on Aminet, but the player itself seems to be absent. I suggest you root around in there anyway, maybe you'll find something else. Be aware though that the last files posted there on this subject are dated between 1994 and 1996. I suspect the player is still active somewhere, but - short of dragging every Aminet directory - not for poor ol' me...

These players were found there...(yaaaaahhhh!)

• PS3M V3.12 - V3.12 of this player is now the first player to support the PC FastTracker2 XM style mod. It also supports the other PC favorites (S3M - hence the name, MTM and Fasttracker V1), as well as the standard Amiga MOD format, and also PlaySid format, providing you have the playsid.library in your LIBS: directory.

• Hippoplayer V2.44 - This is the second player to support the FastTracker 2 XM mods. It is also one of the only players that will uncompress ZIPped files (as well as LHA as do Eagle/Deli, and LZX'ed files) saving you the bother of having to do it 8*). The sound quality from this player in most cases is IMO the best for the higher channel numbered PC mods (8-16 Ch in XM and S3M formats). It also supports the standard protracker format, and Playsid (providing you have the Playsid.library as with PS3M). In fact, the XM support was taken from PS3M, and so the player routines for the PC format mods are nigh on identical to those from PS3M, the difference being Hippo has a better front-end, making it nicer, and easier to use. Hippoplayer now incorporates directory opus,Right Mouse Button selection boxes and external "Scopes" such as the PT-Note scope and various equalisers. Several enhancements and additions have been made to the program in this latest release.

Once again, sorry for the sparseness of the information but where are all the Amiga users? As always with Aminet it's generally worth a major browse... Exasperated with the search for Amiga users, I went looking for myself. I've used the MushyPD site a couple of times because I had previously found some very good Amiga IFF/SVX samples there. The MushyPD site is at

• MEDPlay.lha - MED player for AMOS
• MMPl_CLI.Lha - 75K - Mod player written in AMOS Plays Sound/Pro/Noisetracker modules as well as Octamed module, AMOS .Abk modules and tracker banks.
• MusicMeister.lha - 248K - A .abk music player with some example mods
• TitV1_5.Lha - 63K - Mod player written in AMOS .
• TitV1_7.Lha - 58K - Titchyplay CLI Version 1.7 Written in AMOS Pro.